The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority

Autor: Brown, Heather, Kirkman, Scott, Albani, V, Goffe, L, Akhter, N, Hollingsworth, Bruce, von Hinke, Stephanie, Lake, Amelia
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Brown, H, Kirkman, S, Albani, V, Goffe, L, Akhter, N, Hollingsworth, B, von Hinke, S & Lake, A 2021, ' The impact of school exclusion zone planning guidance on the number and type of food outlets in an English local authority ', Health and Place, vol. 70 (2021), 102600 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102600
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthplace.2021.102600
Popis: The use of planning policy to manage and create a healthy food environment has become a popular policy tool for local governments in England. To date there has been no evaluation of their short-term impact on the built environment. We assess if planning guidance restricting new fast food outlets within 400 m of a secondary school, influences the food environment in the local authority of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. We have administrative data on all food outlets in Newcastle 3 years pre-intervention 2012–2015, the intervention year 2016, and three years’ post-intervention 2016–2019. We employ a difference-in-difference approach comparing postcodes within the school fast food outlet exclusion zone to those outside the fast-food exclusion zones. In the short term (3 years), planning guidance to limit the number of new fast-food outlets in a school exclusion zone did not have a statistically significant impact on the food environment when compared with a control zone.
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